The texts listed below are considered to be of literary merit and suitable for study at NCEA Level 3 and level 8 of the curriculum because they allow the students to respond critically:

Text Title
Text Author
Comment
Ray Bradbury


Raymond Carver


Janet Frame


Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yellow Wallpaper

Tom Godwin
The Cold Equations

Ernest Hemingway


Alex La Guma


Katherine Mansfield


Owen Marshall


Jean Paul Satre
The Wall

Rachel Sieffert
The Dark Room

Hone Tuwhare



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